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Autonomous Multiagent Systems

Autonomous Multiagent Systems. Week – 15 Entertainment Agents. Entertainment agents. Current Applications Games Creatures Companionship Cobot, BoB Virtual reality applications simulations (Tears and fears) Movies The two towers. The two towers – the movie. Battle of Helm’s Deep

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Autonomous Multiagent Systems

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  1. Autonomous Multiagent Systems Week – 15 Entertainment Agents

  2. Entertainment agents • Current Applications • Games • Creatures • Companionship • Cobot, BoB • Virtual reality applications • simulations (Tears and fears) • Movies • The two towers

  3. The two towers – the movie • Battle of Helm’s Deep • 50,000 creatures • Balance chaos and purposeful action • Tough to hand code each frame • Solution • Each fighter is an autonomous agent • Characters are truly fighting!! • Movie – result was fixed but the frames themselves was not under direct control of the director

  4. The Two Towers • Software called Massive used • Agents in massive • Biological characteristics (hearing, sight) • Behaviors ( aggressive ) • Actions (sword up, move back, run) • Brain or the controlling part– not much detail • Rule based system based on fuzzy logic • Results • Surprisingly good..so don’t miss the movie!! • Test runs – a group of agents – it was better not to fight and run away

  5. Believable Agents • “[Agents that] provide the illusion of life, thus permitting….[an] audience’s suspension of disbelief” • Coined by Joseph Bates • From the arts - characters • Requirements • Broad behavior • Suspend disbelief • Artistically interesting • What other factors – for an agent to be believable?

  6. Week 15 exercises • Microsoft Office assistant • BabyBabbler • Pet robots – AIBO • Knowledge bot • Nutrition Assistant • Driving simulator • Video games

  7. The Oz World • World • Simulated physical environment • Objects – methods to use them • Topological relationship • Sensing through sense objects • Automated agents inhabiting it • Agents • Goal directed reactive behavior • Emotional state • Social knowledge • Some NLP • Evaluation • subjective, depends on the user feedback

  8. Oz • Emotions – key component in Oz agents • Emotions – from success or failure of goals • Happy / Sad : when goal succeeds / fails • Hope : chance that the goal succeeds • Degree : the importance of goal to the agent • Emotions affect behavior • <Interaction with Lyotard> • Bates founded a company – zoesis studios (www.zoesis.com)

  9. Believable Agents • Believable agents • Emotions necessary. • Is it advisable to put emotions into machines? • Privacy issues!! • trust

  10. Tears and Fears • Two models brought into one • Emotion affects behavior • Model non-verbal behavior • Behavior should be consistent • Emotion arises from the result of a behavior • Built into characters in a virtual world • Used in military simulations. Mission Rehearsal Exercise system.

  11. BoB – Music Companion • Improvisational companionship for Jazz players • Trades solos by configuring itself to the users musical sense • BoB and believable agents • Similarities • Specificity • Evaluation – based on audience response • Assumes audience is willing to suspend their disbelief • Differences • Time constraint

  12. BoB • Represents melodic content in <pitch, duration> pairs • 3 components • Offline learned knowledge • Perception • Generation • Uses unsupervised learning. • Why?

  13. Cobot • Agent resides in the LambdaMoo chat community • Multi user text based virtual world • Speech + emotion (verbs) • Interconnected rooms modeled as a mansion • Rooms, objects(118,154) and behaviors • Test bed for AI experiments • Primary functionality of Cobot • Extensive logging and recording • Social statistics and queries • Emote and chat abilities

  14. Cobot • Aim: agent to take unprompted, meaningful actions which is fun to users • Reinforcement learning • Challenges • Choice of state space • Multiple reward sources • Inconsistency • Irreproducibility of experiments • Reward function • Learn a single function for all users? • Both direct (reward and punish verbs) and indirect (spank, hug..) • State features • Need to gauge social activity

  15. Cobot - Experiments

  16. Results • Encouraging • Cobot learned successfully for those who exhibited clear preferences. • Cobot responds to dedicated parents • Inappropriateness of average reward • Users stopped giving rewards. • Habituated or too bored

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